Albert B. Fall convicted of accepting bribes – Chicago Tribune

Today is Saturday October 25, the 298th day of the year 2025. There are 67 days left in the year.

Today in history:

On October 25, 1929, former Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall was convicted of accepting bribes in exchange for oil field leases at Teapot Dome in Wyoming and the Elk Hills and Buena Vista oil fields in California. Following the “Teapot Dome Scandal”, Fall would become the first US cabinet member to be imprisoned for crimes committed while in office.

Also on this date:

In 1760, King George III of England succeeded his late grandfather, George II.

In 1859, radical abolitionist John Brown was tried in Charles Town, Virginia, for his failed raid on Harpers Ferry. (He was convicted and then hanged.)

In 1962, at an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council, U.S. Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson II demanded that Soviet Ambassador Valerian Zorin confirm or deny the existence of Soviet-built missile bases in Cuba. Stevenson then presented the board with photographic evidence of the bases, a key moment in the Cuban Missile Crisis.

In 1983, a U.S.-led force invaded Grenada on the orders of President Ronald Reagan, who said the action was necessary to protect U.S. citizens there.

In 1986, in Game 6 of the World Series, the New York Mets scored three runs with two outs in the 10th inning, beating the Boston Red Sox 6–5 and forcing a Game 7; the deciding run was scored on Boston first baseman Bill Buckner’s error on Mookie Wilson’s slow grounder. (The Mets won Game 7 and the Series.)

In 1999, golfer Payne Stewart and five others were killed when their Learjet lost cabin pressure, veered hundreds of miles off course on autopilot and crashed in a South Dakota field. Stewart was 42 years old.

In 2002, Democratic U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone of Minnesota was killed in a plane crash in northern Minnesota along with his wife, daughter and five others, a week and a half before the election.